Writing

Over the course of his career, Jared has covered everything from local school board meetings to a rattlesnake festival, to high-stakes trials. More recently, he has focused on healthcare business writing, focusing on oncology, digital health, and the insurance industry. He continues to write and report on a wide range of topics.

In Advanced Prostate Cancer, a String of Modest Gains Are Changing Patient Care

In prostate cancer, the defintion of a “breakthrough” keeps shifting.

“Twenty or 30 years ago, if you improved radiographic progression-free survival [PFS] by a few months, we would have taken that, because we were making little progress,” said Robert Dreicer, MD, MS, MACP, FASCO, a professor of medicine and urology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.

‘Deidentified’ Health Data Not So Deidentified After All

All Jessilyn Dunn, Ph.D., wanted was a clear-cut answer.

As an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, a critical first step in her research is to contact Duke’s information technology (IT) department to get an assessment of the privacy risks associated with the data sets she plans to use. Such assessments are necessary to properly secure and store the data upon which her research relies.

But the IT department’s responses were never fully satisfying.

Commercial Plan Members Aren't Embracing Digital Health Tools

Patients who might theoretically benefit the most from digital health tools —those with the poorest self-reported health statuses — largely avoided the tools, according to the results of a J.D. Power survey

Commercial health plans are accelerating their investment in digital health tools, but a new survey suggests it will take more than more than money to get users to take advantage of the tools.